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OF THE 



LINCOLN HOMESTEAD TRUSTEES 

REPORT OF 

GETTYSBURG MONUMENT COMMISSIONERS, 



AND 

SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT 

TRUSTEES STATE REFORM SCHOOL, 

PONTIAC, 

TO THE 

THIRTY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

OF THE 

STATE OF ILLINOIS. 



January 2, 1890. 



SPRINGFIELD. IIX.: 

H. W. lloKKEK. State Peintek and Binder, 

1891. 



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SECOND BIENNIAL REPORT 



OF THE 



LINCOLN HOMESTEAD TBDSTEES 



;to the 



Thirty-Seventh General Assembly 



OF THE 



STATE OF ILLINOIS. 



January 2, 1891. 



SPRINGFIELD. ILL: 
H. W. EoKKEB, State Pbinteb and Binder. 

1890. 



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REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF LINCOLN HOME. 



Springfield, III., January 2, 1S91. 

To the Honorable Thirty-seventh General Assembly of the State 
of Illinois: 

Gentlemen — In compliance with the provision of section five 
of "An act to create a Board of Trustees to take and hold the 
title to the Homestead of Abraham Lincoln, in the city of 
Springfield, in the State of Illinois, in trust for the State of 
Illinois, and to provide for the care and custody thereof, and 
to appropriate money lar paj'ing the custodian to keep and 
exhibit said homestead and the relics and curiosities there col- 
lected," we have the honor to submit the following report of 
the transactions and expenditures of the Lincoln Homestead 
Trustees, from January 1, 1889, to December 31, 1890, inclu- 
sive: 

The following State officers met in the office of the Governor 
on April 11, 1889, for the purpose of transacting such business as 
might properly come before them, viz.: Governor Joseph W. 
Fifer, Secretary of State Isaac N. Pearson, Auditor Charles W. 
Pavey, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Richard Ed- 
wards. Governor Joseph W. Fifer was chosen Chairman, and 
Auditor Charles W. Pavey was chosen Secretary of the "Lin- 
coln Homestead Trustees." 

The unexpended balance of the appropriation of the 3oth 
General Assembly on hand January 1, 1889, and the appro- 
priation made by the 36th General Assembly to defray the ex- 



penses of repairing said premises and emplojang custodian for 
the period of two years, and the amount paid out thereon to 
December 31, 1890, are as follows: 



Unexpended balance of appropriation of 35th General Assembly' 

January 1, 1889 

Appropriation (act approved May 29,1889,) for custodian's salary. 
,t '• " " repairs 



DiSBUESEMENTS. 

Joseph Woods, superintending repairs and remodeling homestead. 

L. W. Coe, labor and materials furnished for painting at homestead. 

J. M. Rippey, amount paid for plumbing, gas fitting and paving:.. . 

Paullin & Patterson, papering rooms in homestead and gilding 
staff and ball on Hag pole 

The Culver Marble and Stone Co., labor and materials furnished 
for laying brick and stone walks, erecting hitching post, horse 
block, etc. , and sodding and grading yard 

C. H. Edmands, labor and materials for repairing gutters 

O. H. Oldroyd, brass lettered plate for flag pole and one shade 



tree. 



Helwig & Hopkins, repairing pump 

H. H. Biggs, making, painting and setting 

H. C. Irwin & Bro., material and labor repairing chimney 

J. H. Barkley & Co., furnishing one hot air furnace and one smoke 



stack 



Buck & McKee, carpenter work on barn and roof of house 

John B. Sessions, planting shade tree and removing old tree 

John Donovan, laying sod on yard 

Culp, Troxell & Co., insurance on homestead 

L. W. Coe, painting tin roof of homestead 

J. H. Barklev & Co.. repairing gutters of root 

Springfield Water Works, water consumed at homestead for 2 
years ending July 1, 1890 

Paullin & Patterson, 10 rolls ceiling paper furnished 

H. C. Irwin & Co., labor and materials for repairing flues 

O, H. Oldrovd, salary as custodian from January 1, 1889, to De- 
cember 31, 1890 

By amount of unexpended balance of the appropriation of the 35th 
"General Assembly October 1, 1890, which lapsed back into the 
State Treasury 



Total disbursements 



Unexpended balance of appropriation 

Amount of unexpended balance of appropriation to be paid 
for salary of custodian 8500 00 

Amount of un xpended balance of appropriation to be paid 
for repairs, etc 115 56 



«1,777 35 

2.000 00 

300 00 



ISO 00 
58 00 
76 48 



63 25 



409 00 

4 08 

13 71 

3 05 
10 00 

5 60 

313 85 
191 34 
fc 00 
10 00 
27 50 
15 00 
235 

22 00 
3 50 
61 75 

2,000 00 



115 33 



84,077 35 



3,461 79 



8615 56 



The Trustees would respectfully recommend that an appro- 
priation of $1,000 per annum for the pay of custodian, and of 
.fl50 per annum for the making of necessary repairs and pay- 
ment of incidental expenses, be made by the 37th General As- 
sembly. 

Joseph W. Fifer, Governor, 

ChtiirniRii. 
C. W. Pavey, Auditor P. A., 

Secretary. 
I. N. Pearson, Secretary of State. 
Richard Edwards, Supt. Pub. Inst. 



REPORT 

Gettysburg Monument 

COMMISSIONERS. 
1890. 



Chicago, III., December 1, 1890. 

To His Excellency, Hon. Joseph W. Fifer, 

Governor of the State of Illinois: 

Sir — The commissioners appointed under an act entitled "An 
act to appropriate six thousand dollars to erect a mark on 
the Gettysburg- battle-field where the Illinois troops opened the 
engagement of said battle," respectfully submit their report: 

The Commission was dwXj organized October 2, 1889, by the 
selection of John L. Beveridge, chairman, and Joseph B. Green- 
hut, secretary and treasurer. 

Before taking definite action the Commissioners resolved to 
visit the battle-field of Gettysburg to acquaint themselves of the 
scope and design of the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Asso- 
ciation, and the character of its monumental architecture. This 
visit was delayed until June, 1890. 

In passing over the memorable field, the Commissioners learned 
that all the loyal states represented in that battle, had erected 
monuments in honor of their heroic sons, except the State of 
Ilhnois. 

These monuments number over 250. -Most of them are plain, 
substantial structures, regimental in character, marking the 
spot where the regiment experienced the fiery ordeal of battle. 
The design of the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association 
is not only to commemorate victory and honor the victors, 
living and dead ; but by the monuments, their location and in- 
scriptions, to trace the lines of battle, and render the field 
historic. 

The Commissioners, therefore, considering it would be more 
in accordance with the plan of the Memorial Association, and 
believing it would prove more satisfactory to the survivors of 
said regiments and the patriotic people of the State of Illinois, 
concluded, instead of one monument as contemplated by the 
act, to erect three monuments, one for each Illinois regiment, to 
mark the spot where the regiment stood in hue of battle in the 
morning of July 1, 1863. 

The Commissioners were advised that the Memorial Associa- 
tion is the owner of over 500 acres and has been to great ex- 
pense in the purchase, care and improvement of the same, and 
that the states erecting monuments have borne a part of this 
expense, by contributing for the privilege of erecting monuments 



on the lands of the Association. The Commissioners have agreed 
to contribute for this purpose to the Association, the sum of 
six hundred dollars, believing this to be a legitimate expense in 
the erection of said monuments. They have contracted with 
"The Smith Granite Co.'' of Westerly, Rhode Island, for two 
monuments, for the 8th and 12th Illinois Cavalry, and with 
Triebel t^ Sons, Peoria, 111., for a monument for the 82d Illinois 
Infantry. These monuments are to be built of "blue Westerly 
graniteli" completed and placed in position by June 1, 1891, at 
a cost of |1,500 each. 

In cost, size, design, finish, beautj^ solidity and durability, 
the monuments will compare favorabl}^ with the regimental 
monuments erected on the historic field ; and their inscriptions, 
written in granite, will tell the generations the part Illinois had 
in the great battle of the civil war. 

Many of the states have publicly dedicated their monuments. 
It is the intention and solemn purpose of the survivors of the 
Illinois regiments in September, 1891, to dedicate the monu- 
ments erected by the beneficence of the State. 

Several of the states appropriated sums of money to defray 
in part the expense of such dedications. 

The Commissioners, in behalf of the survivors, and in memory 
of the gallant dead, respectfully request your Excellency, in your 
biennial message, to call the attention of the legislature to this 
matter, and to recommend a liberal appropriation for this pur- 
pose. All of which is respectfully submitted. 

John L. Beveridge, 
I). B. Vaughan, 
J. B. Greenhut, 

Commissioners. 



SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT 

TRUSTEES STATE REFORM SCHOOL, 

PONTIAC. 

1890. 



To His Excellency, Joseph \V. Fifer, 

Governor of the State of Illinois : 

We, the undersigned, trustees of the State Reform School^ 
would respectfully present the following communication, which 
we hardly wish to have considered as a report, but rather as a 
statement of our views as trustees, having the welfare of our 
institution at heart. 

We desire to call attention to the fact that there a great num- 
ber of boj^s now in the Reform School for whom no steady and 
useful employment can be had under the present laws; and es- 
pecially is this true during the winter season, when but very 
few of them can be employed outside of the buildings; and 
when we take into consideration the fact that the idea that lies at 
the very foundation of the institution is that of reforming- the 
boys sent there, to teach them some useful trade or occupation 
which will enable them to become self-sustaining when their term 
has expired, we can see how far we are from fulfilling the object 
for which the institution was formed. 

We also wish to say that in our opinion there are a great 
number of convicts now confined in the two penitentiaries of 
this State who are what are called "first offenders,'' who might 
be reformed and made useful members of societ}', if they were 
properly cared for and instructed, and were treated differently 
from what it is possible to treat them in the penitentiaries 
under the existing laws: and we believe that the idea of the re- 
formation of our criminal classes has taken a hold on the minds 
of the masses of the people to such an extent as that they 
would hail with delight any movement in that direction. 

We further believe that a large reformatory for boys over the 
age of, say 9 years, and "first offenders" under the age of, say 
30 years, could be instituted at the present State Reform School, 
which would reflect credit upon the intelligence of our people 
and result in making useful and law abiding citizens of a class 
of men who, otherwise, would become permanent residents of 
penal institutions. The necessary buildings could be erected by 
the use of the convict labor of the two penitentiaries, which 
would otherwise be idle, with very little cost to the State. There 
is now a sufficient amount of land owned by the State in con- 
nection with the Reform School for the purpose, and we believe 
that Avith comparative little expense an institution could be 
built up here, which would stand for all time as a monument to 
the intelligent foresightedness and philanthropic motives of this 



administration. But it would be necessary to have new legis- 
lation on the subject. The present reform school law would 
have to be changed and modified, and new laws passed in con- 
nection therewith, M'hich would involve a vast amount of labor 
on the part of the friends of such a measure, and yet we believe 
the end would amply justify all the time, labor and expense 
necessary. 

We do not mean by this that the Keform School should be 
abandoned, or its usefulness impaired in the slightest degree, 
but that its sphere should be enlarged and amplified. Other 
states have been moving in this direction for some years, and 
we do not think that the great State of Illinois can afford to 
be in the rear in the onward march of civilization, but rather 
should she be in the van-guard. 

We respectfully ask you to think over this matter, and make 
such recommendations in your message to the next legislature 
as you may think the subject demands. 

Very respectfully yours, 

E. M. John, 

A. D. Cadwallader, 

V. JOBST, 

Trustees. 
Dated at Pontiac, 111., Dec. 4, 1890. 



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